Friday, 25 March 2011

Baked & Delicious magazine giveaway!

One lucky reader will receive issues 2-5, that’s 4 magazines INCLUDING all the silicone bakeware that comes with them. Now that’s what I call a prize worth winning! To be in with a chance of winning, simply leave a comment telling me which cake you would choose to be the cover star of the first edition of your own baking magazine, and why.

The lucky winner will be selected at random at 10am on Friday 1st April, and must be able to email me their address by Wednesday 6th April as Baked and Delicious wish to send out the magazines shortly after. The prize can only be sent to a UK address. Good luck!

26 comments:

Fantastic prize! I'd make a super-duper chocolate gateau covered with edible chocolate leaf so that the picture glinted on the cover, enticing people to pick up the new magazine! (and to celebrate the fact that I had a baking magazine!)

My favourite tins to use are the ones that create chequerboards slices when you cut into the cake and to make it work properly you need high-contrast cakes.

I would go for deep chocolate and red velvet a) bc the colours would look great to gether and b) the choc and vanilla flavours are a perfect match. The whole lot would be iced with a floofy Italian meringue to make the cake zing both as a whole and as a slice!

Wow, what a website to stumble upon! I would have a matcha chiffon cake because it's unusual and would catch people's attention. The cake would also have a pretty flower patterned dusting of icing sugar on the top to make it more attractive. Nice and light but very delicious!

I think there's not enough fruitcake in the world, so it would be the St George cake you posted a few weeks ago. I baked it on Saturday and it was exactly what I remember my grandma making when I was little.

A wonderful moist, light coffee and walnut cake with a creamy butter cream filling and topping, with big plump walnuts to decorate the top. Photographed with a slice being removed on a shiny silver cake slice. Can you tell I have thought about this? It is my very favourite cake and I always use your light recipe. Readers of the magazine would not believe how easy it is to make with such lovely results. Mmmm.

My grandmother, for all of my growing up days, made me a chocolate ice water cake frosted with whipped cream. It was always so perfectly rich, and yet made lighter with the whipped cream topping. And it reminds me of her. She just passed away, and at her memorial, we pulled all of the baked treats she had made recently out of her freezer and served them, with printed out recipes to go along with them.

My cover star cake for my first baking magazine would be a lemon drizzle cake....my mum and dad are both amazing cooks, I unfortunately never inherited their skills, nothing I attempted was actually edible. Finally after many many years of trying to bake, I somehow managed to make a lemon drizzle cake which my family loved and have continued enjoying since! So this would be on the first cover because everyone has to start somewhere and this cake was it for me! :o)

Cheesecake Muffins! Sounds strange but thay are gorgeous. It a muffin, but with a cream cheese filling topped with frosting (like you would get ona a carrot cake). They are my favourite thing because they mix two things that I love - cake and cheesecake! Yum yum! There would be loads of them all piled up on the cover too!

Read this great novel!

Look at this great website

Follow my ambitious attempt to find a recipe for a cake, biscuit, pie or tart for every single one of the 39 traditional English counties!

The Caked Crusader and Boy Wonder

Cartoon by Cakeyboi

About Me

So, the answer to the question you’re all asking: who am I? Well, a superhero never reveals their identity. I think it’s stated somewhere in the contract when you sign up for superhero-dom. Let’s just call me THE CAKED CRUSADER. By day (and night if I’m being honest) a mild-mannered City professional, but at weekends I become THE CAKED CRUSADER. Tirelessly fighting anti-cake propaganda and cake-related injustices – for SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE, ALWAYS NEEDS CAKE (we’ll just skip over the fact that it’s usually me).

Batman’s got the batmobile, batcave etc. Superman does just great what with being able to fly and being really strong. Spiderman’s got that web thing going on. But I have better than them. For I have a credit card and could get one of these:

The purpose of my blog is simple – to spread the word that CAKE IS GOOD.Yes, it is calorific; that is why it tastes so nice.Yes, too much of it is bad for you; that’s what ‘too much’ means.Yes, we’re all told to eat healthily and we know that we should. But ask yourself this – and look very deeply into your soul before answering – when has a cup of tea and a carrot ever cheered you up? However, put that carrot into a cake and happiness will ensue. Quod erat demonstrandum – CAKE IS GOOD.

This site will catalogue cakes I have unleashed unto the world and my thoughts thereon.

By the way, I will never recommend how many portions you should get out of a cake because we’re all different. Plus, it will be very embarrassing when I say it serves 4 and you get 20 portions out of it.

WARNING: Too much time spent on this blog may cause hunger.

Privacy notice

The Caked Crusader blog does not share personal information with third-parties, nor does it store or use information collected about your visit to the site other than to analyse content performance. I am not responsible for the republishing of the blog’s content on other websites or media without my permission. This privacy policy is subject to change without notice.

Cake Achievement in Film and Television Arts (CAFTA)

Have you seen a cake in a film or tv show that deserves recognition? Has a cupcake upstaged a beefcake?

If so, please let me know and that cake could win a coveted CAFTA award. Email me your suggestions, with a photo of the cake if possible.

About Me

I am a 40-something Chartered Accountant working in the square mile.
My main hobbies at the moment are baking, and setting the world record for the number of cake tins owned by one person.
I spend far too much time watching Spongebob Squarepants and would love to try a Krabby Patty...I know, I know - it's not real.